Thursday, March 30, 2006

The Eternal Sonship of Christ

"The Eternal Sonship of Christ" By George W. Zeller and Renald E. Showers. This book is certainly one of a kind. An extremely helpful book in combating the false teaching known as the "Incarnational Sonship" theory (that Jesus became the Son of God at His birth). I was reading the book "Kingdom of the Cults" (W. Martin) - which happens to be a good book on Cults -except where Dr. Martin promotes the false view of the Sonship issue trying to defend his position against the Jehovah's Witnesses teachings. Also another proponent of the false view is John MacAurthur, Jr. With this book the issue is laid out in simple to understand terms. Any student of the Bible can profit greatly from this book, basically it is an easy read. The kind of book that if you owned it, you probabbly will be highlighting it or underlining it (or whatever you do or don't do). 10 relatively short chapters are:

Chapter 1 - The Diety of the SonChapter 2 - The Pre-existence of the SonChapter 3 - The Incarnation of the SonChapter 4 - The Doctrine of Eternal SonshipChapter 5 - The Denial of Eternal SonshipChapter 6 - The Defense of Eternal SonshipChapter 7 - The Meaning of the Term "Son of God"Chapter 8 - The Meaning of Ps. 2:7Chapter 9 - Dealing with Problems and ObjectionsChapter 10 - The Necessity and Importance of the Doctrine

Like all good 'juicy' books it has an Appendix (two as a matter of fact):Appendix A - The Term "Son of God" In Light of Old Testament IdiomAppendix B - The Testimony of MenEnd notes and Resources for further study are also included in the book. Well documented!

(All that in just 128 pages)

BTW, It has been brought to my attention that John MacArthur has changed his position on the Sonship issue. It is the good kind of change.

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